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2023 cancer research highlights: Drug development at its best

Drug Discovery World

Using IgE to treat cancer In the UK, a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. The drug, MOv18 IgE (an anti-folate receptor alpha IgE antibody), was developed by researchers at King’s College London.

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UK-Dutch alliance to strengthen early clinical oncology research

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Under the partnership, KWF intends to provide funding to enable the development of select early phase clinical programmes through Cancer Research UK’s Centre for Drug Development (CDD). Both parties will have the opportunity to identify and nominate potential projects for clinical development.

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New class of antibody cancer drug shows promise

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A Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. The drug, MOv18 IgE, was developed by researchers at King’s College London.

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Women in STEM with Kristina Torfgard

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However, my goal was all the time to work with drug development in the pharma industry, so I moved on and started that journey in 1992 when I took on a role as Clinical Research Manager at AstraHässle, a mid-size Swedish pharma company. I experienced challenges in cultural differences working with US, UK, Japan, and China.

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Immunotherapy for solid tumours progresses to human trials

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Research partners in the UK are progressing their orally available small molecule cancer immunotherapy drug into clinical development as a treatment for advanced solid tumours. In cancer, PGE2 acts in the tumour microenvironment to trigger cancer cells to evade the immune system.

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Three trends in the antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) market 

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In May 2023, Japanese drug-maker Eisai entered into a joint development agreement with Chinese drug-developer Bliss Biopharmaceutical for BB-1701, an ADC with option rights for a strategic collaboration 6. This appears to be supported by the number of Chinese collaborations, approvals and expansions in 2023 alone.

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Successful financing ensures development of Adcendo’s ADC asset 

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This financing will enable us to ensure a broad development program of our lead asset uPARAP and further advance our 2nd first-in-class ADC pipeline asset.” The expression profile and internalising properties of uPARAP make it an attractive ADC target.

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